Door-securer.



No. 659,153. Patented Oct. 2, I900.

F. D. MGGEE.

DOOR SECUREB.

(Application filed Jan. 31, 1900.)

(N o M o d a l UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND'D. MOGEE, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

DOOR-SECURER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,153, dated October 2, 1900. Application filed January 31, 1900. Serial No. 3,508. No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND D. McGEE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, re-

siding at New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Securers; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to door-securers, and

more especially to that class of such devices to be inserted between the door and the jamb for the purpose of securing the door inde-,

pendently of the lock, such devices being especially adapted for use in hotels by travelers to prevent surreptitious entrance by picking the ordinary locks generally used.

This invention consists in theimproved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts of a door-securer of the class mentioned, which will be fully described herein after and afterward particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a horizontal sectional view through a portion of a door and its jamb, illustrating my improved door-securer applied thereto in position to lock the door against opening, the locking-bar being shown reversed in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the door-securer, showing the locking-bar in full' lines turned at right angles to the body of the securer and in dotted lines in its locked position; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device folded.

Like numerals of reference mark the same parts in all figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 4 indicates the main body of the device, which consists of a bar of metal provided at its inner end with a laterally-projecting tooth or blade 5 and at its outer end with lugs or ears 6, between which are pivotally secured or hinged brace-arms 7 and 8, having at their outer ends heads 9 and 10, provided with beveled or acute-angled forward edges, as shown. From the same side of the body 4 from which the tooth or blade 5 projects and between said tooth or blade and the lugs 6 is projected a gage-flange 11, having a notch 12 'tion.

in its outer edge in line with the brace-arm 8. On the opposite side of the body 4, between the gage-flange 11 and lugs 6, is pivotally secured by means of a pin 13 a locking-bar 14, having at its inner edge a laterally-projecting flange 15.

In the practical operation of my invention, thedoor being open, the body4 is placed in p0- sition,wi th the gage-flange 11 against the inner edge of the door-jamb lo and the blade or tooth 5 resting against the jamb, the locking-bar being turned to bringits flange 15 inward, as shown in Fig. 1, and the brace-arms 7 and 8 being turned outwardly, so as not at this time to contact with the door-jamb or the mold or facing 17. The door is now closed to the position shown in 1, such action forcing the blade or tooth 5 into the door-jamb, as clearly shown in that figure. The lockingbar 14 is now turned to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1 and in dotted lines in Fig. 2, in which position it will rest against the inner edge of the door, the inner face of said gage-flange 15 being slightly curved to facili- Late its engagement with the door without marring the same. Ordinarily the door would now be securely fastened; but should extreme force be brought to bear on the outside the pressure of the door inward against flange 15 would tend to bend the body of the securcr pose I have found that a single brace-arm will not prove effective in all cases, owing to the different thicknesses and formations of moldings used in different places and to the fact that some doors have no moldings. To overcome this difficulty, I have provided the two brace-arms 7 and 8 of different lengths, so that where one will not properly engage the molding the other may. The sharpened or wedge-shaped outer ends of the heads 9 and In the use of brace-arms for this purof the brace-arms will bite into the molding and prevent the arms from slipping out of effective position when strain is brought to bear upon them in the manner before described. It will be noticed that the flanges l1 and have their faces in line with each other on opposite sides of the body 4, which will tend to hold the door in proper alinement with the inside of the faces, the placing of the flange 11 in position in contact with the inner edge of the facing serving as a gage to secure the proper engagement of the flange 15 with the inner face of the door when closed. The provision of the notch 12 in the flange 11 permits the longer brace-arm 8 to be closely folded against. the body.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided a light, cheap, etfect-ive, and durable door-securer capable of being folded into a very small compass and of being very quickly applied to and removed from a door.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A door-se :urer comprising a rigid body provided with a laterally-projecting blade or tooth at its inner end and a projecting gagefiange on the same side as the tooth for adjusting the position of the body with relation to the inner face of the door-jamb, a lockingbar pivotally mounted on a fixed pin on the opposite side of the body in position to bring its end in line with the gage-flange when in locking position, and a plurality of arms or braces of unequal length pivot-ally secured to the outer end of the body in position to engage the door-jamb or moldings of difierent thicknesses, to brace the body against bending under strain brought against the lockingbar in attempting to open the door, one of said bracesbeing shorter than the distance between the gage-flange and pivotal point of the brace whereby, when folded, it will lie between such parts, and another brace being longer than the space between the gage-flange and brace-pivot, substantially as described.

2. A door-securer comprising a rigid body provided with a laterally-projecting blade or tooth at its inner end and a notched gageflange on the same side as the tooth for adjusting the position of the body with relation to the inner face of the door-jamb, a lockingbar pivot-ally mounted 6n a fixed pin on the opposite side of the body in position to bring its end in line with the gage-flange when in locking position, and a plurality of arms or braces of unequal lengths pivotally secured to the outer end of the body in position to engage the door-jamb or moldings of different thicknesses to brace the body against bending under strain brought against the locking bat-in attempting to open the door, said braces being arranged to fold substantially in line with the body, the shorter brace when folded lying in the space between the gage-flange and the pivotal point of the brace, and a longer brace in the notch in the gage-flange, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FERDINAND D. MCGEE. Witnesses:

GEORGE A. BABCOCK, DAVID H. CREWELL. 

